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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 3
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Jehoram of Israel and Jehoshaphat of Judah join forces against Moab—Elisha promises them water for their stock and victory in the war—The Moabites are defeated.
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Now</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 1: 17.">Jehoram</a> the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 16: 24.">Samaria</a> the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
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And he wrought <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 40: 13; Abr. 1: 6.">evil</a> in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; but not like his <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 16: 33.">father</a>, and like his mother: for he put away the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Mosiah 13: 12 (12-13).">image</a> of <sup>d</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="Judg. 6: 25 (25-35); 1 Kgs. 16: 32 (31-33).">Baal</a> that his father had made.
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Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 14: 7 (7-11); 1 Kgs. 16: 26.">Jeroboam</a> the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
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&#182; And Mesha king of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 19: 37 (31-37); 2 Kgs. 1: 1.">Moab</a> was a sheepmaster, and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 7: 22.">rendered</a> unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.
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But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 8: 2 (1-2); 2 Kgs. 1: 1.">Moab</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 10: 6; Ether 10: 3 (2-3).">rebelled</a> against the king of Israel.
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&#182; And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
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And he went and sent to <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 15: 24.">Jehoshaphat</a> the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle?  And he said, I will go up: <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 22: 4.">I</a> <i>am</i> as thou <i>art,</i> my people as thy people, <i>and</i> my horses as thy horses.
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And he said, Which way shall we go up?  And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
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So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 22: 47.">king</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 36: 43; 2 Sam. 8: 14.">Edom</a>: and they <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/9c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR made a circuit.">fetched</a> a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.
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And the king of Israel said, Alas!  that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!
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But Jehoshaphat said, <i>Is there</i> not here a prophet of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, that we may enquire of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> by him?  And one of the king of Israel’s servants answered and said, Here <i>is</i> Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
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And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> is with him.  So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
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And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 14: 3; 2 Cor. 6: 14 (14-16).">thee</a>?  <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 10: 14 (13-14); Prov. 1: 28 (27-28); Jer. 2: 28 (26-37).">get</a> thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother.  And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
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And Elisha said, <i>As</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.
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But now bring me a <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 10: 5 (5-6); Eph. 5: 19.">minstrel</a>.  And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 18: 46; Ezek. 1: 3.">hand</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came upon him.
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And he said, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Make this valley full of ditches.
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For thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
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And this is <i>but</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 21: 6.">light</a> thing in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: he will <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 3: 29; 3 Ne. 3: 21.">deliver</a> the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/18c" mark="c" type="A" title="Judg. 3: 30 (28-30).">Moabites</a> also into your hand.
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And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
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And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 29: 39 (39-40); Mosiah 2: 3.">offering</a> was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
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&#182; And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and stood in the border.
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And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side <i>as</i> red as blood:
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And they said, This <i>is</i> blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
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And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in <i>their</i> country.
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And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/3/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 16: 7.">Kir</a>-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about <i>it,</i> and smote it.
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&#182; And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through <i>even</i> unto the king of Edom: but they could not.
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Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him <i>for</i> a burnt offering upon the wall.  And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to <i>their</i> <i>own</i> land.
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